{"id":338,"date":"2016-11-26T04:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-11-26T04:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:20:35","slug":"sri-lankan-court-issues-international-arrest-warrant-against-editor-for-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankan-court-issues-international-arrest-warrant-against-editor-for-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan court issues international arrest warrant against editor for contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sri Lankan court on Friday issued an international arrest warrant against\u00a0Lankaenews\u00a0Editor Sandaruwan Senadheera for contempt of court. The warrant is to be executed through Interpol, the local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a Sri Lankan court has issued an international arrest warrant against a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Senadheera has been accused by the Gampaha Chief Magistrate Kavindya Nanayakkara of publishing on his website a photograph of a suspect in a case of assault on former Editor of\u00a0Rivira\u00a0newspaper, Upali Tennakoon, even before the suspect was produced for an identification parade.\u00a0This was seen as contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate also instructed the Department of Immigration and Emigration to arrest the\u00a0Lankaenews\u00a0editor if he arrives in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe had told Parliament that legal action will be taken against Sandaruwan Senadheera for insulting the country\u2019s judges using the\u00a0Lankaenews\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Attorney-at-Law Madura Vithanage had submitted 14 complaints to the court claiming that the website in question had published reports insulting several judges and courts in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: New Indian Express<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sri Lankan court on Friday issued an international arrest warrant against\u00a0Lankaenews\u00a0Editor Sandaruwan Senadheera&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}